Laugh

Famous quotes containing the word laugh:

“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

“In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, curses mix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“All one glow, one mild laugh lasting ages.
Some precision, he fumed into his soup.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)